Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law